In another life, I wrote a shareware program called DLL Checker . I wrote it because I was constantly cleaning up customers' systems of conflicting DLLs. Starting with Windows Me and Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced the Windows File Protection feature...

[NOTE: This article has nothing to with the Phoenix Framework for software optimization. I just want to recognize the brilliant men and women in our world space program.] I'd like to think I've been an amateur astronomer for years, but if you really luck...

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) will be held in Los Angeles October 27- 30. Registration opens today at: http://www.microsoftpdc.com . This PDC will be one of the first really big showings of the Rosario release of Team System....

Its rare that a senior developer, architect, or operations person doesn't know about Sysinternals tools, but it happens. For the few of you who don't know what I'm referring to, Sysinternals is the brand name for more than 70 separate advanced system...